Date of birth:

September 1st, 1922 (Wemmetsweiler/Saarland, Germany)

Date of death:

March 18th, 1996 (Wemmetsweiler, Sennestadt/Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

German

Promotions:
00.00.1942: SS-Oberschütze;
09.11.1943: SS-Rottenführer;
30.01.1944: SS-Unterscharführer;
00.00.1944: SS-Scharführer;
01.10.1944: SS-Oberscharführer.

Credited with a total of 80 tanks destroyed.

Career:
15.08.1941: joined the Waffen SS
00.00.1941: MG-Schütze, 3. Kompanie, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterieregiment 1, SS-Totenkopf-Division
00.03.1942: WIA in the Demyansk Pocket and evacuated to a Lazarett in Germany
00.11.1942: Panzerrichtschütze, 13. Schwere Panzer-Kompanie, SS Panzer-Regiment 1, 1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler
00.07.1943: Operation Zitadelle - Kursk
00.09.1943: SS-Oberschütze, Richtschütze, awarded the Iron Cross 1st class, having destroyed 80 tanks and 107 anti tank guns
00.04.1944: SS-Uscha, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 - campaing in Normandy
06.06.1944: SS-Uscha, Panzerkommandant,Tiger Nr. 212, I. Zug, 2. Kompanie, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101
16.06.1944: severely WIA to the head and evacuated to a Lazarett
00.02.1945: SS-Oscha, Ausbilder, schweren SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501, Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock
00.05.1945: US POW

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

July 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)

Awarded on:

July 23rd, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)

Awarded on:

1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)

Awarded on:

July 26th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Oberschütze (Private 2nd Class)

Unit:

Richtschütze, 13.(schwere) Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler"

Awarded on:

October 14th, 1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)

Awarded on:

January 1st, 1944

Silver version

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)

Unit:

Richtschütze, 13. schwere Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1, 1. SS-Panzer-Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"

Awarded on:

January 16th, 1944

The initial justification for Woll's Knight's Cross reads as follows...
"Exceptional conduct in earlier fighting at Kharkov - action March 1943. Summer action Belgorod 1943 and present winter battles. 61 tanks destroyed as of 11/1/44, including numerous assault guns.
During elimination of armoured penetration on 12/ and 13/1/44 in Mal.Bespechna-Chesnovka area, 16 T-34s and 3 assault guns were knocked out by the tank of SS-Rottenführer Woll, where he served as gunner. This raises his total of tanks destroyed to 80."

• Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection
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• - MOONEY, PETER, Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles, Schiffer Military History, 2016.
  - SCHNEIDER, J.W., Their Honor Was Loyalty!, Bender (R.James) Publishing, 1993.
  - woll balthazar.JPG1.JPG.
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  - woll balthazar.JPG3.JPG.
  - Agte, P., Michael Wittmann and the Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte, J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc., Canada, 2005 (Second Printing)
  - das-ritterkreuz.de